Zhang Yimou famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.
-- Zhang Yimou

#Time #Memories #People
Now a movie with 30 million returns would be something very incredible and the producer can only get 10 to 15 million. This is only 100 thousands US dollars. This is not enough!
-- Zhang Yimou

#Return #Dollars #Would Be
The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.
-- Zhang Yimou

#Stories #Elements #Plot
To survive is to win.
-- Zhang Yimou

#Winning
Time has changed and now is the age of spending.
-- Zhang Yimou

#Time #Age #Spending
Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind.
-- Zhang Yimou

#Mind #World #Fantasy
Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.
-- Zhang Yimou

#Ocean #Destiny #Men
To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.
-- Zhang Yimou

#Art #People #Misery
Piracy has destroyed the domestic market.
-- Zhang Yimou

#Piracy
People in misery is what most important in art.
-- Zhang Yimou

#Art #People #Important
I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.
-- Zhang Yimou

#Taste #Audience #Western
I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.
-- Zhang Yimou

#Mind #Stories #Stills
I must stick with Chinese language films.
-- Zhang Yimou

#Chinese #Sticks #Language
Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.
-- Zhang Yimou

#West #Educated
HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism.
-- Zhang Yimou

#Hero #Feelings #Combination
This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
-- Zhang Yimou

#Trying #Firsts #Considerate
People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
-- Zhang Yimou

#Views #People #Leisure
You must know what you are capable of.
-- Zhang Yimou

#Capable

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